Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript

Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by flog on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @12:22PM (#1050563)

This was my 2009 new-years prediction... damn it, just out! The best demo is http://jancona.com/gordon/demos/blue.html

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by wensing on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @01:44PM (#1050764)

Framerate on the iPhone is terrible for the part with all the stars, then quite good.

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by JulesLt on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @05:19PM (#1051332)

Considering that the CPU usage on a Mac is lower than the Flash version of the same demo, that perhaps says a lot about the prospects of Flash on mobile devices . . .

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by Klonoar on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @06:00PM (#1051421)

That says nothing, considering this is coded up in an interpreted language (JS), compared to the speed of a compiled language (C/ObjC) on an official iPhone version of Flash, should there ever be one.

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by scythe on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @06:38PM (#1051506)

Languages aren't everything. Gnash, written in C++, never succeeded in replacing Flash even on platforms like *BSD where Flash was nonexistent.

In particular, when dealing with Flash, feature-completeness is going to be much more important than perfect performance. Since the Flash VM on Linux and OS X is so slow and software-renders everything, it really won't take much to improve on it. The advantages of a dynamic language are probably going to far outweigh C++'s speed, and Javascript's similarity to Actionscript is icing.

Plus, Javascript can take advantage of whatever hardware-accelerated graphics library the browser vendor chooses.

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by tvon on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @03:55PM (#1051107)

Ditto, using a 3GS.

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by leoc on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @04:08PM (#1051144)

Is there any kind of "Flashstone" benchmark app?

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by peregrine on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @12:41PM (#1050605)

If you double click it it will kill Chrome. AW SNAP.

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by Slashed on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @01:14PM (#1050691)

Don't know. Works fine for me..

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by peregrine on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @02:23PM (#1050856)

Probably cause I am using the Dev build. Oops, time to submit a bug report.

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by Slashed on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @02:54PM (#1050946)

Actually, I'm using Dev build as well.

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by pavs on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @03:32PM (#1051057)

Same here. Nothing happens. No Crashes. 4.0.288.1 stable build

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by gcb on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @05:36PM (#1051370)

Is there a non-dev build?!

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by metachor on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @02:59PM (#1050956)

Just mousing over it causes all my Chrome tabs to crash, consistently. Using release(not Dev) build.

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by Nwallins on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @04:22PM (#1051189)

Interesting. I thought one Chrome tab should not be able crash another.

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by drtse4 on Thursday January 14, 2010 @06:48AM (#1052386)

All the three demos work fine on chrome dev build 4.0.249.64

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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java... by skoob on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @02:38PM (#1050900)

Then don't double click it.

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